Adele leads the way in Billboard Awards nominations

Adele has received 18 Billboard Awards nominations along with LMFAO, while Rihanna is up for 13 prizes.

Adele had a barnstorming 2011, bagging six Grammys (Picture: Reuters)

Adele, who has recently nominated for an Ivor Novello Award, continues her run with nominations in categories such as Top Artist, Top Female Artist and Top Billboard 200 Artist. Her hit single Rolling In The Deep is also up for seven separate awards.

Rihanna was nominated in 18 categories last year, so this time will be a bit of a dip for the Rude Boy singer, who has been eclipsed by party rockers LMFAO who also have 18 nods.

Lady Gaga and Lil Wayne have 10 nominations each, including one each in the coveted Top Artist category.

Adele has had a very strong year awards-wise. The Tottenham-born lass has picked up six Grammys and two Brit awards for her second album 21.

That album will also battle it out with Kate Bush’s 50 Words For Snow and PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake for best album at the Ivor Novello Awards.Both Adele’s tracks Rolling In The Deep and Someone Like You have also been nominated for the PRS for Music Most Performed Work.

As if this wasn’t enough, she was named Britain’s richest young musician under 30, seeing off competition from Cheryl Cole and Leona Lewis.